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6A Klngsport Times Thursday, April 17, 1975 Commission Continued From Page 1 --Use the Pierce Ditching properly (already being acquired by the school system) for additional tennis courts and outdoor area. Retain the existing tennis courts near the wooded area. Scott said the proposal incorporates ideas from several sources, including City Planner Jimmy Walker. It evolved after Kingsport voters in January turned down a bond issue which would have provided S2 million to buy the houses in the Stadium Court area. Both the Recreation Advisory 'Board 'and the Citizens Advisory Committee voted unanimously for the plan, and members of both groups appeared at the iiext city council meeting lo support it.

The Audubon Society members and the 'school people were there, and quite a few talked. Then the aldermen voted three-to- three, and the mayor cast the deciding vote to cut the park down," said Scott. "The way I looked at it, the Board of Jlayor and Aldermen were confronting a Situation where one group, the school board, was saying 'Let's do And Advisory Committee and the Advisory Committee, and a peti- from about 500 persons, were saying look at the I "I think the park should be a permanent of the city and not something that (could go at the whim of a group at any I "I suggested that night that they should present it to the Planning Commission, Isince they hadn't seen it. The Planning is the part of the city that is there for the express purpose of main- burling control over all the city does. But the board went ahead and voted anyway." Scott said the school board has said it Jmust have space for a minimum of 11 i physical education spaces.

In the alternate iplan, "we came up with 13." However, iScott said, the 13 spaces include indoor units in the girls' and boys' gyms and the i swimming pool, "which for some reason school board doesn't want to count." i He added that some extra P-E space, now uncounted, may turn up in the areas near i the closed-off ends of Indian Court and I Stadium Court. Another important factor, Scott said, is the city's plan to widen Eastman Road from Brooks Circle to the Kingsport Mall. Additional land may be opened up for D-R physical cd classes when the street's curves are straightened out. He added that "quite a few" of the residents of the Stadium Court area "are much more interested in selling than they were before the bond referendum was hekl. And, in the meantime, he pointed out, the screen-plantings in his plan would provide a "nicer neighborhood" for the remaining households.

Queried about the alternate plan, Board of Education Chairman Ed ShaughneSsy said the Board recognizes it as a possible solution. In fact, it's included among four alternative plans he'll present tonight to the Planning Commission. The board also mentions the Maplehurst Trailer Court property on Center Street and the Stadium Court residential area as the two other alternatives, and hoth were also ruled out for good reasons, Shaughnessy said. He said the school board prepared cost studies for each site, and counted the possible P-E spaces in each site, and only the park site fills the requirements. Shaughnessy said school figures show that Scott's plan doesn't provide room for the operation of intramural programs at the school, as long as varsity athletics are using the spaces.

Also, he said, Scott's plan doesn't provide enough outdoor P-E spaces. Some spare areas should be available to allow the turf a chance to recuperate from heavy use by the P-E classes. Shaughnessy said. Also, if the park site is used, the cost will be from $265,000 to less than the cost Scott's plan, Shaughnessy maintained. He also pointed out that the school board's plan doesn't mean the loss of the entire park.

Only about three-fifths of the trees will be removed to make room for the playing field and track. The remaining two-fifths will remain as a strip of woodland bordering on Eastman Road. Shaughnessy conceded that the widening of Eastman Road can be a factor in providing future P-E space for D-B. "But it's probably a matter of timing. We need land and space for our program now, not in three or four years from now." Shaughnessy also added that he doesn't think D-B will need to acquire any more P-E space if its present plan is followed -unless enrollment at the high school climbs above 2,100 students.

DEATH NOTICES Phnom Penh Economy Continued From Page 1 Thus, total output of goods and services measured in actual physical rather than dollar terms --'may show little if decline this quarter, in contrast to the "sharp slumps of last fall and winter. Modest expansion should begin in the third quarter, with solid gains regenerat- 'ed in the fourth. But what happens after that? Will the continue, gathering the kind of momentum that is needed to cut unemployment, when the number of job seekers is growing and rising productivity requires fewer workers anyway? The skeptical economists aren'toffering "negative answers. But they are concerned 'about the recovery's staying --For one thing, their calculations sug 1 gest that the tax cuts' impact will be diminished in the third quarter and still less potent in the fourth. economy.

--The analysts aren't sure that tne pickup in home building that seems certain to reflect the greater savings flows into mortgage-lending institutions will be very vigorous. (Housing has been a leader in most postwar recoveries.) Builders were burned badly in the recent crunch, with many going out of business; the survivors are wary about plunging ahead. --Businessmen so far are being cautious in planning their spending for new plants and equipment a very dynamic factor in the business cycle. Even if they decided to step up spending this summer, it could be a year.or even two before the plans have a significant economic impact. The worry seems to be that the new ex- pansion that is about to get started.will run out of steam early next year.

Growth may continue, but at a slow pace. It would be too slow to make a dent in unemployment, which could still be above 8 per cent as 1976 begins. Saigon N.W* Ringley N.W. Ringlt-y, 86, of 1621 Spruce Street died at 6:30 Thursday morning at Holston Valley Community Hospital following an illness of one year. Born in Virginia; he had resided in Kingsport most of his life.

He was a self- Funerals WIKGEAR, PATTON (Pot) Funwol Services wra be conducted at 2 p.m. Salurdav at Ihe Ffnt a Church In K.tnoswxN wlrh Ihe Rev. Her- mo.7 Anderson and Dr. officiating, (lurkil wHI follow erf Oak HUli Ccmelery. The body will remain at trie funeral home where the family will receive friends Friday nighl.

Frretvjs may alia call al Ihe mldonl, JMiTodrTi Nephews will oollbearers. Honorary pal'-bearers be Ihe Men's Bible Ctai's of Ihe Firs! ROD! 1st Cnurch, KrriirsQorl, and Mcnontc bodies. Masonic riln will bet-eklal 8p.m. Friday ntghl En the Gate Clly Funeral Home Chanel. American Lcgtan HcmmondPosI No.Jof wlB be In charge of graveside services.

The body will be 1aken ro I ho church one hour before services. Gole City Funeral Home In charge. MORELOCK, LORA BELL LIGHT Funeral will becooducled al 2 p.m. FT Ihe Creek Mii- sf BOOTY Boptiif Crturch. Official Ing the Rev.

Odan. Burial win be al the Beech Creek Cemetery. Body will be placed In 1he church minutes prior lo the services. The; body will be taken lo Ihe home. Route 6.

Rogersvllfe, Thurs- a evening where Ihe family will frhends. roc me Funeral Home, Rogersvlile, in DEATHERAGE. DELM6RD. Deatrierage, age 84, i Road, Gardens will be held ar 10 a.m. Rev.

William S. offktallng. Burial will be In East Lawn Me mo tat liom 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday a1 Ihe tunercl home. Hamlett-Dooson Funeral Moire In charge.

BALL. DELMER H. Funeral servkei lor Delmer H. Boll, cge 47, Raulc 6, Rouersvilre, who died Wednesday at his homo will be car.dicl- etl al p.m. Friday at Ccrler's Chocel Ihp Rev.

Joe Still and Ihe Rev. Jarvis Morelock ollktallnav Burta twill be In the Ben F-imiJy Cemetery In Hawkir. County, The body wlB remain afCcrler's CUcoel where family will receive friends from 7 la 9 p.m. Thursday. Pcll- beorers be CecH MOT clack, Vincenl Rail, Gary Jones, Keith Armstrong, Dana Conkln, Roy Conkln, a Moreluck, Charles McNeese.

Curler's DERRICK, ROY FRANKl IN Funeral Services for Roy FranUIn Oenkk will be conducted at 1 p.m. Sa- lurdoy al Hamlett-Datoion Chooel wllh Tho Rev. W. and The Rev. Tony GoniQlei olflclating.

The body will remain at funeral ar.d Ihe lamny wHI receive friends Friday evening 7-9 p.m. Funeral Hcme is In Stocks Of Local Interest (WcdimdQY Clctfng Prowldcd by J.c. Co. Did Atked Books Firil Amer. Nail.

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Baker Oil Tools Cor oJina ClIrKWield Cenco Instruments Chentfcol BwA N. Eastman Kodok Gcblfr Industries r-tdidav Inns McDonald Cof p. Mead Corp! Continued From Page 1 U.S. sources said today that American will open a special processing center at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airbase by Saturday to cut through red tape and expedite the evacuation of American citizens and their Vietnamese families. The official said they will leave on U.S.

mililary flights to the United States. American officials have denied an "evacuation" is underway and said the departure is voluntary. The source said the creation of the processing center was to aid Americans with Vietnamese families through government red tape. However, other nations, including Britain, are reportedly drawing up plans with the U.S. Embassy for a final evacuation of foreigners.

Maj. Gen. Homer Smith, the U.S. military attache and the highest-ranking officer in Vietnam, warned an assembly of Americans Wednesday in Saigon, "I can tell you that the longer you stay here the more difficult it's going to be in terms of you and your families to get out of here." 8-Year-Olds Charged As Vandals EI.I7.ABETHTON No estimate has yet been made of the damage to the East Side a School here Wednesday, when two a 10 of the 14 'classrooms. Police said will charge i 1003 Siam Road and James Shell, 1000 Street, i a The boys were discovered in the school by Cole's mother, Mrs.

Flossie Cole, who went looking for her at the i court he was supposed to playing. When she found boys in the a i building, she not i i i i a Frank Baker. Police say the boys ap- took a variety of hand tools Wednesday dur- school hours, and re- turned to the back of the building after classes were dismissed. Both boys are second graders at the school. Entry to the building was apparently gained through a broken window, and wire reinforced glass panncls adjacent to classroom doors were broken to gain entry Arrested In March The Times-News in- correctly reported Tuesday Buford Harold Fer- Route 2, Fall Branch, was arrested last Fall in connection with a Kingsport burglary.

Ferguson actually was arrested in late although the break- did occur last Fall. Fer', guson was found not guilty of the burglary charge in Sullivan County Criminal Court as previously reported. to individual classrooms. Most heavily a a was school library, where every bookcase was overturned and the card catalogue and hundreds of canisters of film was strewn throughout the room. In a science classroom, eggs that had been placed in an incubator to hatch were broken, an aquarium was filled with fish food, and the teacher's desk was overturned.

The lens to an overhead projector was broken, but television sets mounted to classroom walls were not disturbed. to the cafeteria and kitchen area was limited to cake thrown about the room. A large glass window at the entrance to the i cipal's office was broken and some drawers were opened, but no significant damage occurred there, Baker said. School was in session today, although with some i i of a schedules, according lo Baker. Deadline Past; 16 Candidates Noon a the deadline for withdrawing from the May 20 city election, left Kingsport voters with no smaller field of candidates for the four vacancies on the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.

All 16 "hopefuls" arc still in the race, and their names will appear on the i ballot even if they later choose lo withdraw from the race. The seats of a Richard Bevington, Vice Mayor Dick Stout, and Aldermen Richard Watlerson and Mack Gibson will be filled by the voters, who will also decide whether they want to elect their i Board of Education members, or have them appointed by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. Both Stout and Gibson chose not to run for re-election, or the field of can-' didales would have been the largest in the city's history. It's so easy to make arrangements before you have to. Since 1902 ultll (Cemetery Mam Pel Milk PtMilanCa RcvcoDnjg Stares Secbocrd Coast Lir-es ShcfvUn WIIHams J.

P. Sieves UnilM Utilities Vukcn Materials Seay Will Ready Poems At ETSU jdilNSON. CITY -Award-winning American poet; James Seay, will appear at East Tennessee State University, April 17. Currently, poet-in- residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Seay will conduct a poetry workshop at 2 p.m., and will read from his works at 8 p.m. Both programs are scheduled for the ETSU Wesley Foundation, 1100 Scminole and are open to the public.

Seay has published two books of poetry from the Wesleyan University Press and had individual poems in The American Review, the Nation, the Southern Review and similar journals. Lake Stages By united frets NorrU watouoa Boone Ft Pal Cherokee Doug'ai Tuet. wtd. 1016.6 1016.8 1956.4 1956.4 1376.9 10663 1066.5 984 0 employed painter and carpenter and farmed a portion of his life. Surviving are his wife, Susan Brooks Ringley of the Home; one daughter, Mrs.

Hersal (Blanche) Cross, Bluff i sons, Ernest Ringley, Clarence Ringley and Vernon Ringley, all of Bluff City; 13 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren. Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home is in charge. Laura Morelock ROGERSVILLE Laura Bell Light Morelock, 69, of Route 6, Rogersville died Wednesday evening at the Tacoma Hospital in Gre'eheville following a long illness. Survivors include her husband, Burt Morelock; one daughter, Mrs. Rita Hill, Kogersville; three Reevie and O.V..

Morelock, both'of ville, and Randolph Morelock of Kingsport; four. sisters, Mrs. Roxie.Bernard, Mrs. Burlie Light, and Mrs. Clyde all of Rogersville, and Mrs.

Dessi Tunnell of Kingsport; one brother, Claude'Light of Rogersville; 13 grandchildren, one great- grandchild. Broome Funeral Home in Rogersville is in charge. Roy Derrick Roy Franklin Derrick, 66, of 148 Franklin St. died at 11:45 p.m.. Wednesday at Holston Valley Community Hospital following an extended illness.

Born in Hawkins County he had lived in Kingsport for the past 40 years. He was employed at Tennessee Eastman Company for 30 years, retiring in 1962. He was a member of the First Freewill Baptist Church, of Morrison City. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Elsie Larkins Derrick, Kingsport; one daughter, Reba Hensley, Kingsport; one sister Maggie Larkins, Burtonsville, two brothers, Robert and Elijah Derrick, both of Church Hill; three grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.

Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home is in charge. Glenn McClain I A I Fla. McClain, 65, died Monday at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Fla. He was a native of Johnson City and had lived in Miami for the past 20 years. Survivors include one sister, Mrs.

Anna M. Earnest, Kingsport; and one brother, Fred a i Redding, Pa. Gravesideservices.will.be held in Johnson City. Hamlett-Dobson Funeral Home is in charge. Patton Winegar Patton a Winegar, 81.

of 2024 Todd's Drive, died at Holston Valley Community Hospital at 8:40 a.m. a a an extended illness. He was a native of Scott County, a Baptist, a veteran of W.W. I serving in the U.S. Army, and a Tennessee a a Co.

employe retiring in 1959. He also was a member of the A i a Legion Hammond Post No. 3 for 55 years, the color guard, the Veterans Of Foreign Wars, the i Comman- dary, the Shriners of Ker- bcla Temple of Knoxville, a 32nd Degree Mason, the Masonic Lodge No. GG8 of Kingsport, the Eastern Star Chapter 108, the Rebecca Lodge No. 22S in Kingsport, and the Lovedale Lodge No.

100F. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Allah Daugherty Winegar of the home; one sister, Mrs. Charles (Nellie) Benton of i i a i Ohio; one brother, (Bill) Winegar of Surgoinsville; several nieces and nephews. Gate City Funeral Home is in charge.

Continued Krom Page 1 ficials. All civil servants and government functionaries were ordered to return to work as usual Friday morning. "We enter Phnom Penh as conquerors and we have not come here to speak about peace with the traitors of the Phnom Penh clique," said a radio announcer speaking for the insurgents. The announcer, ordered generals ami- high ranking government officials to report to the downtown Information Ministry under a white flag of surrender. The radio said Phnom Penh commander Gen.

Chhim Chhuon and Gen. Lon Non, brother of exiled president Lon Nol, were the first to surrender. Rebel broadcasters indicated no other high-ranking officials of the Phnom Penh government had arrived. Three hours after the first surrender order, the rebel calls for the presence of former government leaders increased in number and grew more insistent. The formal surrender order was made over Radio Phnom Penh at 1 p.m.

(1 a.m. EDT) by Brig. Gen. Mey Sichan, chief of operations of the Cambodian armed forces. He said soldiers and government functionaries should cease all combat.

Insurgent troops with loudspeakers moved through the street with appeals for calm. "I order, after an appeal by the We invite you to ice our bronze memorials by Gorham, Master crafUmen in Silver and Bronze 0. Box 788 Truxton Kingsport 247-5101 WARD WEEK SALE Important notice regarding Montgomery Ward advertising sale circular Due to recent consumer demand, we do not have sufficient stock of the disposable diapers, selling for 9" TV, selling for $58; 5' Stepladder, selling for 12.88; 5' Better Stepladder, selling for $16.88 in today's advertisement. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you. (Buddhist) bonzes, the three'arms of the armed forces of the Khmer Republic lo lay down their arms and invite representatives of the Klimcrs of the other side to take power.

doors to Phnom Penh and other province capitals are open to them. "I ask the population in Phnom Penh and in the provinces to stay calm. "Representatives of the (government) army are trying lo find ways to negotiate with the Khpiers of the other side in order lo guarantee security." UPI reporters in Phnom Penh said the surrender came shortly after dawn when the rebel forces swept across the city. Cambodian naval units across the Mekong River had already raised white flags. The last battle was for the three-story tall Information Ministry housing Phom Penh Radio.

Experts on the Cambodian situation said they believed the first order of business for the rebels on taking control of the a i would be a massive program of arrests. They expected the government to be run initially by a revolutionary military committee. In foreign affairs, the new government was expected lo break diplomatic ties with the United States, South Vietnam, Thailand and all other nations which maintained embassies during the last months of the Cambodian war. Mead's First Quarter Earnings Show Decline Mead Corporation had first quarter 1975 net ear- ings of or 23 cents per common share after provision for preferred dividends com- Colleges Get Grants Congressman James H. Quillcn announced today the approval of allocations the Bureau of Postsecondary Education of the U.S.

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for institutions participating in the College Work-Study Program. The nine colleges and universities in' the First District receiving grant monies are as follows: Bristol Commercial College will receive an allocation in the amount of 517,134 for an estimated number of 35 student awards; Carson- Newman College, $44,626 for 92 awards; East Tennessee -State University, $299,889 624 awards; King College, $23,800 for 49 awards, Milligan College, $25,069 for 52 awards; Morristown College, $58,549 for 121 awards; Steed College. $26,352 for 54 awards; Tusculum College, $47,601 for 99 awards; and Walters State Community College, $13,557 for 28 awards. pared to 313,475,000, or 75 cents per share for the first. three months of 1974.

Mead's sales for the quarter were $282,020,000. Iast year Mead reported 8356,022,000 in sales for the first quarter, which included $36,000,000 from operations that were subsequently divested. The decline in sales and earnings in the white paper segment was the most important factor in Mead's first quarter results. "This reflected the fact that paper inventories at the Customer level had- accumulated to very high levels in 1974 and that Mead elected to run to orders rather than build inventories during the first quarter," according to James W. McSwiney, chairman of the board.

Mead's paperboard group ran at or above industry operating rates during the quarter. However, a strike during the entire month of January at one linerboard mill and startup expenses at the hew Stevenson', Alabama, corrugated medium mill: lowered an otherwise acceptable performance', McSwiney said. and forest products affiliates improved their performance over the first quarter of 1974 despite the slack demand for lumber. Earnings of the Industrial Products group were up sharply over 1974, aided by improvement in Mead's coal mining operations. The castings division is i at better operating rates than the industry average.

Sales by the Mead Products group (school! home and office supplies) arc ahead of the 1974 pace, McSwiney said. He termed the outlook "optimistic" for those lines during the balance of the year. Operating results of the Mead Merchant group, distributors of paper arid related industrial supplies, declined from last year's first quarter. Furniture sales by the Mead Interiors group are well below those of a year ago, reflecting continued slowness in businesses related to home construction, McSwiney said. Mead plans capital expenditures of about $85 million in 1975, compared to the $120 million invested last year.

McSwiney said the increase in the investment tax credit could advance the timing of one or more sizeable projects which the corporation is considering. The effective tax rate for the first quarter of 1975 was 10 per cent against 46 per 'cent in 1974. Kmart Photofinishfng 5 7 COUPON FROM FOCAL OR COLOR PRRfT NEGATIVE OR SLIDE COUPON MUST ACCOMPANY ORDER No Foreign Film LIMITS COUPON VALID APRIL 1 7-23 KINGSPORT TIMES-NEWS PROGRESSIVE FARMER FREE COOKING SCHOOL TONIGHT CIVIC AUDITORIUM 7 P.M. Doors Will Open At 6 P.M. Limited Number of Tkkets will be dvailoble at Ihe door.

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